"Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation."
-Hosea Ballou
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"Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.“
-Hosea Ballou
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"Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness."
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"Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit."
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"Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage."
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